John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2016-09-27)
John tells of his long friendship with Ransom Riggs, which began in a Ulysses class at Kenyon College and continued through road trips, Mental Floss and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He looked back on it again at the film's premiere in 2016.
About: Ransom Riggs, Kenyon College, Ulysses
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-21 | told | John tells of his friendship with Randy (Ransom Riggs), from their Kenyon Ulysses class through Mental Floss and road trips to Los Angeles twelve years later. | Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:01:39 |
| 2016-09-27 | retold | John has known Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's author, half his life: in college they road-tripped to the Grand Canyon, read James Joyce and wrote comedy sketches. | Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet 00:01:05 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says he went to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, an undistinguished student who surrounded himself with smart people like Bruce (later a disastrous summer together in Moose Pass, Alaska) and Mary Fran. — 00:00:02
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says Mary Fran and Bruce asked him to join their independent study reading James Joyce's Ulysses, joined by sophomore Randy; a class on one book turned out to be very hard. — 00:00:19
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John: After deciding against divinity school John took writing jobs including Mental Floss, where he hired Randy as a freelance writer because he explained things simply, though Randy still wanted to make movies. — 00:01:18
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says he and Randy stayed friends, and Randy began uploading weird little documentaries to YouTube, which became extremely popular because they are amazing. — 00:01:39
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — recommendation: John says Randy, now going by his real name Ransom Riggs, wrote a novel based on thousands of found photographs he collected, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which John found weird, wonderful and unlike anything he had read. — 00:01:48
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says he has seen great books get lost in crowded bookstores again and again, and kept telling Ransom it's a marathon, not a sprint. — 00:02:16
- 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says his friendship with Randy means road trips to the Grand Canyon with their friend Kathy, through Ohio snow and endless Texas, and, twelve years later, walking around Los Angeles together still taking pictures. — 00:02:42
- 2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John says time with Ransom always brings him wonder because of his particular way of seeing the world, and so do his books, wonderful in the original sense. — 00:01:38